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Michael of Ephesus

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Michael of Ephesus most probably belonged to the twelfth-century intellectual circle around Anna Komnene and took part in her project to produce commentaries on Aristotle’s writings. His work on Aristotle’s ethics, logic, metaphysics, and biology was instrumental in the revival of Aristotelian studies in Byzantium but also in the transmission and rediscovery of Aristotelian thought in the Latin West.

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  1. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Katerina Ierodiakonou

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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Ierodiakonou, K. (2018). Michael of Ephesus. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_334-2

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